I wonder if I can find any good dance songs at any of these sites.
Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Advice for employee reviews
This is good reading and advice for changing the way most of us look at our annual performance review:
John Porcaro: Employee Reviews
It makes me think that all throughout the year I should be tracking my accomplishments to make this process easier.
Digital Video Converter
with plenty of 8mm video tapes begging to be digitized and edited, I think I’m gonna get this:
Canopus ADVC110
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Someone write that man a speech
I was listening to the news on my way in to work. Some government department released information announcing that 248,000 jobs were created in the U.S. in the month of May. The President, speaking about that from a trip in Italy, said that the increase in jobs proved that the U.S. economy is “vital.”
No duh [...]
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Renaissance and the Family (for Alisa)
Family in the Renaissance
The Renaissance Family
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Renaissance: Learner.org
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
read the first 2 “Abstract” sections: Bruce W. Young
Associate Professor – Early British Literature Faculty
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My first Priceline experience
Before tonight, I’d never used Priceline. I think the issue I had was one of control. I didn’t want someone (something?) to decide where I stayed or when/with whom I flew.
I’d visited a web site called biddingfortravel.com a few times in the past. It’s dedicated to helping people get the best deal from Priceline. After [...]
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States I’ve been in…
create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide
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(Way less than) Six degress of separation
Since I started contracting for , I’ve added some blogs about Apple and by Apple employees to my reading list. One is called Teal Sunglasses written by an Apple employee named Chuq Von Rospach.
It’s late now and I was googling on Eric Holstege, a former VP I used to work with. I came across some [...]
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The Good and Bad News About Recovering Stolen Cars
My cell phone rang at about 2:45am Monday morning. Gina told me to ignore it as it was probably a wrong number. That sounded reasonable to me because anyone who had our cell phone number and needed to reach us at 2:45am surely had our home phone number and would have used it.
I didn’t think [...]
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